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Patent CA-2257266-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KAVALIERS MARTIN I
IPC: A61N2/04
Filed: 1997-06-05
Abstract: La présente invention concerne un appareil et un procédé permettant de traiter un trouble choisi dans le groupe des troubles physiologiques, neurologiques et comportementaux, et consistant à appliquer à un sujet un champ magnétique pulsé à basse fréquence déterminé (Cnp) composé de plusieurs ondes intermittentes, pendant une durée efficace qui permet d'obtenir l'effet désiré sur le tissu ciblé.
Patent CA-2263822-A1 (CA)
Title: Drinking receptacle covers
Inventor: GOTO TORU
IPC: A47J41/02
Filed: 1999-03-02
Abstract: A drinking receptacle cover to be removably applied to an opening of a receptacle main body. This cover has on its top plate a drinking spout which can be shut off and a negative pressure relief valve. The spout contains a drinking spout main body which protrudes from the top plate and has a channel; a drinking spout portion which is fitted on the drinking spout main body to be shiftable in the axial direction so as to open and close the channel; and a drinking spout cap which can be removably applied to the drinking spout portion; and the channel can be opened and closed by the shift of the drinking spout portion which occurs with fitting and removal of the drinking spout cap.
Patent CA-2263930-A1 (CA)
Inventor: HOLLAND RICHARD C
IPC: G06F3/0484
Filed: 1997-09-11
Abstract: A method of controlling a computer window display of a display system having a display surface of one or more physical screens, provides an integrated workspace wherein multiple applications are displayed, by category, in a coordinated, predetermined area of the display surface. In response to a request inputted to the display system, the requested application display is created. A category of the requested display is ascertained. A lookup is performed in a configuration file to find a match between the category of the requested display and an entry in the configuration file. When a match of categories is found, the display characteristic data is obtained to get the position and size of the display. A pointer points to the next available area of the display area for the category of interest, and the display is created to be positioned within the selected available window.
Patent CA-2264309-A1 (CA)
Title: Method of inhibiting fibrosis with a somatostatin agonist
Inventor: KASPRZYK PHILIP G
IPC: A61K38/08
Filed: 1997-08-27
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting fibrosis in a patient. T he method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a somatostatin, a somatostatin agonist or apharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to said patient.
Patent CA-2268064-A1 (CA)
Title: Glazing agent for food excellent in workability in coating
Inventor: TAKAHASHI HIDEKAZU
IPC: A23G1/30
Filed: 1997-10-03
Abstract: A glazing agent for food characterized by comprising a solution prepared by dissolving a lipid in a 5 to 20 w/w % solution of a film-forming component in ethanol and/or isopropanol at a concentration of 5 to 20 w/w % based on the solid matter of the film-forming component, the lipid being liquid at ordinary temperatures and soluble in the above alcoholic solvent. The concentration of the lipid in the above solution of a film-forming component is 10 to 15 w/w %  based on the solid matter of the film-forming component when the film-forming component is zein, or is 10 to 20 w/w % when the component is shellac. The lipid is a liquid fatty acid and/or a fatty acid ester of polyglycerol. The liquid fatty acid is oleic acid, myristic acid, lauric acid and/or a mixed fatty acid derived from an edible vegetable fat or oil. The mixed fatty acid is soybean oil fatty acid and/or rice bran oil fatty acid. The zein is one purified through extraction with alcohol and precipitation of the extract in nearly anhydrous acetone. The food is confectionery including globular, tableted and granulated chocolate. The glazing agent inhibits the adhesion among particles in coating to give a glossy coating, thus being excellent in workability.
Patent CA-2270394-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KAY BRIAN K
IPC: C07K1/00
Filed: 1997-10-31
Abstract: The present invention is directed to the identification of compounds in a compound library which can mediate the biological activity of a target receptor protein, even when the ligands which mediate that activity through binding to that receptor are not already known. The method comprises three steps: (1) Screen at least one potential surrogate combinatorial library for members (preferably peptides or nucleic acids) binding to the target protein (TP) and hence capable of use as surrogates for the unknown ligand in steps (2) and (3). (2) Screen at least one complementary library, preferably a combinatorial library (which is not limited to, and may not even include, peptides, or nucleic acids and hence is referred to on occasion as a "compound library"), for compounds which inhibit the binding of one or more surrogates from step (1) to TP, and, optionally, (3) determine whether the inhibitory compound mediates the biological activity of the said TP.
Patent CA-2270558-A1 (CA)
Title: Treatment of autoimmune diseases by photochemotherapy
Inventor: SUWA HIROSHI
IPC: A61K41/00
Filed: 1997-10-17
Abstract: Novel medicinal compositions and a treatment method to be used in photochemotherapy or photodynamic therapy for autoimmune diseases. The above compositions contain mono-L-aspartyl- or mono-L-glutamylchlorin e6 or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, while the above method comprises exposing the vascular blood of a patient containing the above compound to ultraviolet rays or laser beams to thereby photochemically excite the compound. This method is efficacious in reducing autoantibodies in the blood and has a high safety.
Patent CA-2270872-A1 (CA)
Inventor: KLEIN-VAN DER LEE FREDERIQUE M
IPC: A01H5/00
Filed: 1997-11-18
Abstract: L'invention porte sur un fragment d'ADN pouvant être obtenu de l'arabidopsis thaliana et capable, une fois réintroduit dans une plante, de promouvoir la transcription d'une séquence d'ADN associée inductible par les nématodes cécidogènes ou à kyste. L'invention porte aussi sur l'utilisation dudit fragment d'ADN.
Patent CA-2270895-A1 (CA)
Title: Building conditioning technique using phase change materials
Inventor: PAUSE BARBARA
IPC: C09K5/06
Filed: 1998-03-25
Abstract: The technique of the present invention for minimizing the floor-to-ceiling temperature gradient of a room containing a ceiling, a floor, walls and at least one door and one window, includes the utilization of a phase change material adjacent the ceiling surface and a phase change material adjacent the floor surface. In order to effectively minimize the floor-to-ceiling temperature gradient of the room, first and second phase change materials may be either the same or different, or may be blends of phase change materials. Most preferably the melting temperature of the first phase change material adjacent the ceiling is greater than the crystallization temperature of the second phase change material adjacent the floor. Preferably, the melting temperature of the first phase change material is 25 °C plus or minus 1 °C and the crystallization temperature of the second phase change material is 22 °C plus or minus 1 °C.
Patent CA-2271005-A1 (CA)
Title: Cutter-mixer and bed-straw spreader wagon provided of a perfected group for the distribution of the straw outside the wagon
Inventor: LOPPOLI GIUSEPPE
IPC: B01F13/00
Filed: 1997-11-07
Abstract: The invention realises a cutter-mixer and bed-straw spreader wagon (1) for fibrous products comprising a container (2) provided inside of at least a rotating screw feeder (7) and outwardly of at least a distribution group (6) suited to convey the cut and mixed material outside said container (2). Said distribution group (6) comprises a fan (8) which volute (13) is fixed to a side of said wagon (2) and presents internally an impeller (14) provided of blades (18) having a plane surface (180). Said blades (18) are in number of four and are located orthogonally among them.
Patent CA-2274164-A1 (CA)
Inventor: OXLEY JOHN
IPC: C12M1/00
Filed: 1998-09-21
Abstract: Bioreactor apparatus for culture of living matter in a liquid medium comprising a plurality of tubes connected at one end to a primary manifold section and at their other ends to a secondary manifold section such that a flow of liquid containing said living matter can be established within said manifolds and tubes, wherein the flow of liquid medium in such manifolds and tubes, wherein the flow of liquid medium in such manifolds and/or said tubes is capable of control by at least one gas injection means in communication with the primary manifold section and at least one gas injection means in communication with the secondary manifold section. Such an arrangement provides finer control of the flow conditions in the tubes forming part of the bioreactor and of the environmental conditions for culture of the living matter. The arrangement can have a relative simplicity of design which also permits a reduction in the total number of tanks and/or control loops usually associated with bioreactor apparatus of this type.
Patent CA-2275064-A1 (CA)
Title: Multi-element tip electrode mapping catheter
Inventor: WEBSTER WILTON W JR
IPC: A61B5/296
Filed: 1999-06-17
Abstract: A mapping catheter comprises a catheter body, a handle and a tip section. The catheter body has an outer wall, proximal and distal ends and at least one lumen extending therethrough. The handle is at the proximal end of the catheter body. The tip section comprises a flexible tubing having proximal and distal ends and at least one lumen extending therethrough. The proximal end of the flexible tubing is fixedly attached to the distal end of the catheter body. The tip section comprises an electromagnetic sensor for producing electrical signals indicative of the location of the electromagnetic sensor. The tip section further comprises a multi-element tip electrode mounted at the distal end of the tip section comprising a plurality of electrode members electrically isolated from one another and arranged such that, during use of the catheter within the heart, at least two different electrode members are capable of contacting the endocardium tissue at one time. An electromagnetic sensor cable electrically connect the electromagnetic sensor and extends through the tip section, catheter body and handle for carrying electrical signals from the electromagnetic sensor to a circuit board. The catheter further comprises a plurality of electrode lead wires, each lead wire being electrically connected to an electrode member and extending through the tubing, catheter body and handle.
Patent CA-2277003-A1 (CA)
Title: Adjustable fill indicator with repositionable weight
Inventor: SEBBEN DANIEL ANGELO
IPC: A01D34/63
Filed: 1999-07-08
Abstract: A fill indicator having a pivotable lever located within a clippings container of a mower for actuating a switch and audible alarm when the lever pivots in response to accumulating clippings piling up in the container, the lever including a weight member repositionable to a plurality of positions on the lever for adjusting the sensitivity of the lever to forces applied to the lever by clippings within the container.
Patent CA-2278203-A1 (CA)
Inventor: BURT DARRYL R
IPC: E06B3/70
Filed: 1998-01-21
Abstract: A mirrored door includes at least four interconnected members (20, 22, 30) providing a frame. The frame has first and second oppositely disposed sides and an uninterrupted interior perimeter defining a cavity. A door skin (12) is secured to one of the sides and closes the cavity. A mirror (10) is positioned within the cavity and conforms to the perimeter. A molding element (46) is disposed about the perimeter. The molding element (46) bears upon the mirror (10) and abuts the members (30). The molding section (46) is mechanically secured to the members (30) so that the mirror (10) is thereby retained within the cavity.
Patent CA-2281735-A1 (CA)
Title: Tire with silica reinforced tread and/or sidewall components
Inventor: SANDSTROM PAUL HARRY
IPC: C08K5/54
Filed: 1999-09-09
Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of rubber compositions for tire tread and tire sidewall component applications. A tire is provided having tread of such composition designed for relatively heavy loads such as, for example, truck tires. A tire having a sidewall of such composition is also provided. Such tire component rubber compositions are of rubber compositions reinforced with precipitated silica and selected carbon black in specified amounts and prepared with a prescribed order of addition to the rubber composition and composed of elastomers as a specific combination of natural or synthetic cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber together with cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber or with a combination of cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber and trans 1,4--polybutadiene rubber.
Patent CA-2282533-A1 (CA)
Title: Apparatus for applying a sizing composition to glass fibers
Inventor: FLAUTT MARTIN CHARLES
IPC: C03C25/10
Filed: 1998-03-03
Abstract: A sizing applicator (30) is provided for applying a coating of sizing composition to glass fibers (14). The sizing applicator (30) includes a housing (40) and a roll applicator (70) which is rotatably coupled to the housing (40). The housing (40) has a supply port (46a, 46b) adapted to receive sizing composition from a sizing supply source (80), an exit slot (47) and a passageway (45a, 45b) extending from the supply port (46a, 46b) to the exit slot (47). The passageway (45a, 45b) receives sizing composition from the supply port (46a, 46b) and delivers the sizing composition to the exit slot (47) such that the sizing composition exits the housing (40) and is received on an outer surface (72) of the roll applicator (70). The roll applicator (70) is spaced from the housing (40) such that the housing (40) does not substantially contact the sizing composition once it is received on the roll applicator (70).
Patent CA-2282764-A1 (CA)
Inventor: LEI MING
IPC: G06V10/98
Filed: 1998-04-16
Abstract: A system for using OCR processing to read human readable characters that correspond to an unsuccessfully decoded code word in a bar code symbol. An imaging system captures an image of a label that includes a bar code symbol and corresponding human readable characters. The system attempts to decode the bar code symbol by decoding each of the constituent bar code characters. If a bar code character is not successfully decoded, the system locates the associated human readable text and segments the text into individual character images. The unsuccessfully decoded bar code character is mapped to one or more of the alphanumeric character images, which are converted into text characters. The resulting ASCII data is used to create a substitute bar code character in the bar code symbology. After the bar code symbol is decoded using the substitute bar code character, the symbol is validated through check summing or other means.
Patent CA-2283144-A1 (CA)
Inventor: STRICKLAND DAVID
IPC: H04W4/16
Filed: 1998-03-04
Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving call connection to one of a plurality of destination numbers (30) on a calling list (25) is disclosed. The method involves monitoring the inband signals between an interrogating mobile switching center (15) and a remote node (14) during call setup procedures. An inband monitoring device (60) looks for terminating signals indicating that call setup to the remote nodes (40) will not be completed. Such signals would include the tones associated with a busy signal, a call congestion signal or special information tones. Upon detection of such a termination signal, the call setup procedure is immediately discontinued without waiting for expiration of a call answer timeout period.
Patent CA-2284403-A1 (CA)
Title: Device for agitating a liquid in a reactor and for injecting a gas into this liquid
Inventor: GOUHINEC FLORENCE
IPC: B01F27/906
Filed: 1999-09-29
Abstract: This device includes a drive device (1) arranged above the reactor, provided with a vertical output shaft (2) equipped at its end with an axial-flow mobile assembly such as a propeller (4) immersed in the reactor. The output shaft of the drive device also carries an auto-suction turbine (5) immersed in the reactor and drivable by the output shaft (2). The latter is enveloped coaxially by a cylinder (6) linked at its upper end to the drive device (1) and whose lower end (6a) opens out into the turbine. The upper end of the cylinder has an aperture (14) for injecting a gas into an annular gap (15) delimited by the shaft and the cylinder. This device makes it possible to transfer a gas into a liquid efficiently and to ensure agitation whereby particles may be placed in suspension and held there.
Patent CA-2284912-A1 (CA)
Title: System and method for on-line essay evaluation
Inventor: DRISCOLL GARY
IPC: G09B5/06
Filed: 1998-03-20
Abstract: System and method for on-line essay evaluation offer students the opportunity to prepare practice essays, submit the essays to trained and expert readers (214), and retrieve an evaluation (222) at the student's convenience. The system provides the capability for a user or test taker to submit essays at any time during the year (212), independent of the timing of an actual testing event, and to receive prompt, consistent evaluations of the submitted essays (328). Further, the system provides the capability to prioritize essays (250, 252) and schedule readers so that essays can be evaluated on a rush basis (256). The essays are evaluated in a manner that provides useful instructional feedback to students about their skills relative to any assessment or test that the student wishes to take (166).
Patent CA-2287153-A1 (CA)
Inventor: SCHNEIDER PHILIPPE
IPC: G11B19/02
Filed: 1999-10-22
Abstract: The present invention relates to a control apparatus for controlling the displacement, in particular the scrolling, of a medium and/or the reading of a medium that has been recorded as a function of time, said apparatus comprising exactly two control members responsive to pressure or to contact or a single control member having exactly two active or contact positions for transmitting stop, read, and scroll orders to the apparatus for performing scrolling or reading, with this being done at a predetermined speed and in two opposite scrolling or reading directions, the durations of presses, contacts, or actions being compared for the purpose of defining the corresponding orders with two threshold values of predetermined durations, a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value, which values are compatible with the average performance times of human users. According to the invention, a prolonged press, contact, or action on either of the control members, i.e. an action longer in duration than said upper threshold value, gives rise to a continuous positive change in the scrolling or reading speed in the scrolling or reading direction associated with the actuated control member, or with the position reached by the single control member, throughout the time that the pressure, contact, or action takes place, until the maximum scrolling or reading speed has been reached.
Patent CA-2287965-A1 (CA)
Title: Treatment or prevention of menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis
Inventor: KELLY GRAHAM EDMUND
IPC: A61K31/352
Filed: 1998-05-01
Abstract: There is described a method for the treatment or prevention of menopausal symptoms or osteoporosis wherein there is administered to a subject in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of the isoflavone formononetin, or a method for the treatment or prevention of menopausal symptoms wherein there is administered to a subject in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of the isoflavone daidzein, the isoflavone being optionally administered with one or more pharmaceutically aceptable adjuvants, carriers and/or excipients. Therapeutic uses and compositions/foods are also described, comprising daidzein or formononetin optionally in association with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable adjuvants, carriers, food components and/or excipients.
Patent CA-2292586-A1 (CA)
Title: Solid pharmaceutical dosage forms in form of a particulate dispersion
Inventor: GHEBRE-SELLASSIE ISAAC
IPC: A61P3/10
Filed: 1998-07-29
Abstract: Solid particulate dispersions of pharmaceutical agents in a matrix of a water-soluble polymer exhibiting good aqueous dissolution enhanced bioavailability. The method of the invention utilizes water-soluble polymers such as polyvinylpyrrolidone, hydroxypropyl cellulose or hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose as carriers. The invention provides for mixing or extracting the active ingredients in solid particulate form with the polymeric carrier at a temperature at which the polymer softens, or even melts, but the drug remains solid or crystalline. The drug particules thus become coated and produce a product that is matrix coated, i.e. a particulate dispersion.
Patent CA-2297945-A1 (CA)
Title: Preparation pharmaceutique a activite biologique du type neurotrope
Inventor: MALIARTCHOUK SERGEI
IPC: A61K38/18
Filed: 1998-08-05
Abstract: L'invention porte sur des préparations pharmaceutiques à activité biologique du type neurotrope comprenant un premier composé se fixant sur et/ou active au moins un récepteur trk, et un deuxième composé se fixant sur et/ou active au moins un récepteur p75, associés à un excipient pharmacocompatible. L'activité biologique du type neurotrope peut être celle du NGF. Le récepteur trk peut être choisi parmi les trkA, trkB ou trkC.
Patent CA-2300144-A1 (CA)
Title: The use of primers for universal fingerprint analysis
Inventor: ROHDE WOLFGANG
IPC: C12Q1/6876
Filed: 1998-08-05
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of primers and primer pairs for DNA  fingerprint analysis. According to the invention, finger prints can be obtained from people, animals, plants and micro-organisms with the primers and primer pairs. The invention also relates to the primers or primer pairs used for this purpose, and to kits containing the primers or primer pairs.
Patent CA-2300468-A1 (CA)
Title: Security alarm keypad with message alert
Inventor: PARKER JAMES
IPC: H04L12/58
Filed: 2000-03-10
Abstract: A security alarm system is adapted to retrieve e- mail status information and provide an alert signal for the user of the system that e-mail has been received and is awaiting retrieval. Preferrably, the keypad of the security system includes a visual indicator which is activated when e-mail is received. The security alarm system uses the control panel and the auto dialer associated therewith, to contact the e-mail server and receive status information of one or more e-mail accounts.  The control panel can contact the e-mail provider on a predetermined basis, or on a user scheduled basis. The accounting system's capability to initiate telephone communications and process signals from a remote computer is advantageously used for e-mail retrieval.
Patent CA-2304240-A1 (CA)
Inventor: AFFINITO JOHN C
IPC: C23C22/00
Filed: 1998-09-16
Abstract: A method for protecting a metal substrate from corrosion comprises the steps of providing a metal substrate and applying a treatment solution to the surface of the metal substrate, wherein the treatment solution comprises a partially hydrolyzed aminosilane and a fluorine-containing inorganic compound. Preferably the metal substrate is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, aluminum alloys and mixtures thereof.
Patent CA-2305895-A1 (CA)
Inventor: STRADINGER JAY D
IPC: E03F1/00
Filed: 2000-04-17
Abstract: A vacuum waste tank for use in a vacuum drainage system, The tank has a vacuum intake for attachment to a vacuum source and a waste water intake for attachment to a vacuum pipe. The vacuum source creates a negative pressure in the tank and vacuum pipe so that liquid entering the pipe is pulled into the tank.  The tank is made of a thermoplastic material having a flexural modulus sufficient to withstand an external pressure loading caused by the vacuum in the tank without buckling.